Training Matters in neurology

摘要

Does neurology attract particular personality types? This widely held suspicion got some empiric-if anecdotal-evidence from an experience in the Department of Neurology at Johns Hopkins a few years ago. The Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory was administered to nearly 100 neurologists in the faculty, with the hope that identifying particular personality features of individuals might be helpful in their practices. A psychologist then came to the annual neurology retreat to interpret the results. He began by saying, "I've never seen anything like this. Almost all of you are clustered in one personality category." He described us as